Senior Survivability Engineer
Gibbs & Cox

Job Info

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Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States. Since our founding in 1929, 24 classes of combatants and nearly 7,000 vessels have been built to Gibbs & Cox designs. We proudly support military and commercial clients in the U.S. and internationally with all phases of marine design, construction, and lifecycle management. Our passion is solving our customers' 21st century maritime challenges with quality and integrity.

As a member of an interdisciplinary team that focuses on total ship survivability specialty engineering services, the Senior Survivability Engineer will be responsible for engineering activities related to susceptibility, vulnerability, and recoverability for surface ships. This will include, but is not limited to, the review of technical drawings, the analysis of design fitness, the implementation of alternative solutions, as well as the development of corresponding deliverables. This role will report to the Department Manager, Survivability.

Responsibilities:

• Define and analyze requirements which impact the ability to achieve project defined margins
• Develop and implement test plans, procedures, and requirements verification tracking
• Perform technical design reviews and participate in relevant Integrated Product Teams
• Identify design deficiencies and develop recommendations for solutions
• Develop design deliverables and present results to customer
• Engage in technical negotiations with equipment and material vendors and review vendor design products and vendor furnished information
• Identify and address risk items relating to areas of responsibility, including identification and risk mitigation planning
• Develop and foster client and contractor/subcontractor relationships
• Provide leadership and mentorship to other engineers
• Act as Technical Lead on assigned projects involving the creation and monitoring of scopes of work, estimates, and budgets.
• Provide oversight and technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Perform quality assurance reviews of products prior to customer delivery.
• Support a culture of teamwork, enthusiasm, and proactive behavior

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other relevant engineering discipline with eight (8) plus years of ship design or maritime operational experience
• Working knowledge of naval architecture, marine systems, platform, and topside design principles
• Ability to perform engineering calculations and tests for validating ship and system performance
• Experience working on naval ship design, commercial shipbuilding, or other large military procurement program
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills, and a background in working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience making responsible decisions and consulting in areas of specialty engineering
• Ability to work independently and with remote team members and/or customers
• U.S. Citizenship
• Must currently hold or be able to obtain a security clearance.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time

Desired Skills:

• Experience with requirement development and/or maturation related to ship survivability
• Experience with Modelling and Simulation (M&S), performing associated data analysis for design improvement recommendations, and/or implementation of results into live exercises
• Understanding of ship signatures reduction methods and low observable systems and components
• Experience incorporating vulnerability reduction features such as separation, redundancy, armoring, etc. into marine systems and platform design holistically
• Understanding of damage mitigation concepts related to events such as Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) defense, ballistic penetration, underwater shock, air blast, collision, grounding, conflagration, etc.
• Experience with Environmental Qualification Testing for Shock, Vibration, and EMI
• Understanding of damage control doctrine including system activation and human-in-the-loop actions in the event of shipboard flooding and fire

Gibbs & Cox is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The VEVRAA, VEVRAA | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov), covers veterans.

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